Sunday, February 3, 2008

The World According to Surly...

A series on internet conversations between myself (Gipper1@mac.com) and Joe McKenna (joemck30), starting January 15, 2007, just after the New York Giants had been eliminated from the playoffs:

Gipper1@mac.com: In other football news, Tom Coughlin fired his offensive coordinator with a week left in the season, then fired his defensive coordinator a week after losing in the playoffs...and then got a one-year contract extension. Apparently everyone on the Giants' coaching staff is to blame for what happened this season except Tom Coughlin! Stated another way, the people Coughlin hired did a terrible, horrible, awful job -- but Coughlin did a fine job of supervising them!

joemck30: i am with you all the way on that one george
joemck30: i hate him

Then, after the boys in blue got their mojo back and upset the Buccaneers in round one of the playoffs four weeks ago...

Gipper1@mac.com: so, can the "GEEEEEEE-MEN" take down the cowboys on the third try?

joemck30: with the way they've been playing, i think they can
joemck30: am i hopeful? no
joemck30: eli will poop himself

And after Eli & the Gang beat the Cowboys to make the NFC Championship...

Gipper1@mac.com: so, what say you are the odds of the g-men being a "team of destiny" ala the 2001 patriots and 2005 steelers? 50-50?

joemck30: 30-70
joemck30: eli sucks in bad weather

Eli helped the Giants win in -23 degree windchills.

So, this evening in Glendale, AZ, Tom & Eli have just one thing to say:

How do you like us now, you surly bastard?!?!?

Joe could not be reached for comment. (PS - I hope I speak for everybody here, except maybe the aforementioned surly one, in extending Meg and Patriot Nation our deepest condolences.)

Meg, you probably would've found this a little funnier had the Pats won:

2 comments:

Surls said...

Have any of you ever known me to be optimistic about a sporting event in which my team was playing? I predicted the Navy loss back in August.

And, yes, I (along with all of New York) did hate Tom Coughlin a year ago, and, yes, Eli has played awful football in bad weather in his career. So I stand by those comments.

The second half of this season was an incredible turnaround that not even the most optimistic fan of the New York Football Giants (see 2008 Super Bowl champs) could have accurately and honestly predicted after that drubbing by the Pack in September. Eli grew up and played like the number one pick he was supposed to be, and Tom Coughlin changed his style and didn't have to deal with Tiki's locker room distractions. Yet, if you read the transcript, I did (and have been saying since week 17) that "I [thought] they can." And, to Eli, I wore your jersey every Sunday this year, so don't hate.

Now a question for YOU, George. WHY do you have a conversation from a year ago?

George said...

Forget about one year ago Joe, you and the rest of NY probably hated Tom Coughlin six weeks ago, when it looked like the GEEEEEEEEEE-MEEEEEENNNNNN would choke their way out of the playoffs again. Watch the entire assembled media and New York fanbase be calling for Tom's head on the silver plate after next season's 0-2 start.

And to answer your question, iChat automatically saves all conversations to the my hard drive. Like how Nixon put the tape recorders in the White House, just something to have around should any chats of historic significance pop up; they are automatically archived.